![]() He decides to keep the money and leaves the scene without being discovered. ![]() One of the lead characters, Llewelyn Moss, while hunting, stumbles across a satchel of money and a lot of dead bodies at a drug deal gone wrong out in the middle of nowhere. He does not use quotation marks for dialog, which can be distracting, but I found that it was not really an obstacle. This matches the stark environs of Texas, where his novel is set. McCarthy writes in an austere style, reminiscent of Hemingway, that offers a bleak commentary on human nature. ![]() If you haven't read the book " No Country for Old Men" or heard of author Cormac McCarthy, then you might want to give this one a look. You may have seen the film "No Country for Old Men" back in 2007 when it won the Cohen Brothers the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with a number of other Oscars. ![]()
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